119 results about "Task oriented" patented technology

Systems, methods, and user interfaces are used for controlling a robot. An environment map and a robot designator are presented to a user. The user may place, move, and modify task designators on the environment map. The task designators indicate a position in the environment map and indicate a task for the robot to achieve. A control intermediary links task designators with robot instructions issued to the robot. The control intermediary analyzes a relative position between the task designators and the robot. The control intermediary uses the analysis to determine a task-oriented autonomy level for the robot and communicates target achievement information to the robot. The target achievement information may include instructions for directly guiding the robot if the autonomy level indicates low robot initiative and may include instructions for directing the robot to determine a robot plan for achieving the task if the autonomy level indicates high robot initiative.

A dialog management apparatus and method for processing an information-seeking dialogue with a user and providing a service to the user by prompting the user for a task-oriented dialogue may be provided. A hierarchical topic plan in which pieces of information are organized in a hierarchy according to topics corresponding to services may be used to prompt the user to change an information-seeking dialogue to a task-oriented dialogue, and the user may be provided with a service.

Methods and systems are provided for assigning task-oriented roles to persons in an organization. In accordance with one aspect, such methods and systems may perform a process including providing a set of tasks that can be performed in an organization and defining a set of roles for persons in the organization. The set of roles may be defined by assigning one or more tasks from the set of tasks to each role. Further, the process may include performing a role assignment process including assigning, by one or more business users, persons to the defined set of roles, wherein assigning comprises providing a user name for each assigned person. The role assignment process may also include creating, by an administrative power user, a user ID for each user name that does not have an associated user ID. In one aspect, the role assignment process is performed in a cascaded manner along hierarchical levels of the organization until roles at a lowest level of the organization are assigned to one or more persons. Further, the role assignment process allows business users to continue to assign the defined set of roles in the cascaded manner by only providing user names.

The subject invention relates to systems and methods that utilize a task oriented user interface with a document centric software application. The task oriented user interface aims to be more discoverable than conventional interfaces and better at performing unknown tasks without sacrificing the efficiency of performing known tasks. The user interface facilitates searching and / or browsing of tasks that can be carried out via utilizing the document centric software application.

A wireless telephone comprising a basic telephone module adapted to perform time critical functions, and an enhanced services module adapted to perform non time critical functions is disclosed. The basic telephone module includes processing resources needed to provide communication, while the enhanced services module performs enhanced functions which can be performed on a non time critical basis so that processing resources belonging to the basic telephone module do not need to be diverted to these functions but instead can be dedicated to performing time critical functions. The basic telephone module can be removed from the enhanced services module and connected to a different enhanced services module, similarly, the enhanced services module can be removed from the basic telephone module and connected to a different basic telephone module. This feature allows a user to retain his or her basic telephone module or enhanced services module when acquiring a new or upgraded enhanced services module or basic telephone module.

Application boundary decomposition and dynamic grouping of application components may provide a user with a task-oriented, user-configurable, dynamic user interface. An operating system may include various individual application components and a user may be able to organize the application components to create custom task groupings for performing specific tasks. The components of a single task grouping may be displayed within a single task frame or border. Alternatively, the components may be displayed upon on the user's desktop without such a border along with other desktop icons. Application components may be dynamically rearranged, either by the user or automatically in response to user context changes or according to a priority relationship among the application components. Additionally, multiple application components may access a single shared copy of data and task groupings may be shared among different users using different computer systems.

An interactive process navigation window is a hybrid of a file-based paradigm and a task-based paradigm. The window contains multiple panes, in which at least one pane (object pane) lists objects, while another pane lists tasks which are applicable to a selected object in the object pane, and which serves as a launchpad for various application software. A root object pane is placed in the upper left portion of the window, displaying groupings and sub-groupings of objects. A content object pane is placed in the upper right portion, the content pane displaying the contents of a group selected from the root pane. A task pane occupies the bottom of the window, the task pane displaying tasks applicable to the group selected from the root pane. In one embodiment, the task pane is divided into two parts, one of which displays tasks related to a selected group from the root pane, as described above, while the other displays a user-configurable list of frequently performed tasks, which does not vary with the contents of the object pane(s). The navigation window described herein provides diverse users with an interface which is both task-oriented and object-oriented, making it easy to switch from one paradigm to the other, depending on user preference, the type of task to be performed, or other appropriate factors.

A method for automatically presenting digital content to a user of a computer computes task-related metadata from data which may include i) a most recent event record, ii) a most recent specification received from the user of a task being performed by the user, iii) an automatic prediction of the current task being executed by the user, iii) past event records and associated task identifiers stored in a database and / or iv) content in resources associated with a given task. The task-related metadata is communicated to a digital content service provider. Digital content relevant to the user based on the task-related metadata is then selected, sent to the computer, and presented to the user. Rules and filters control the metadata going out and the content coming in, allowing automatic adaptation based on the current task, characteristics of the content, and other factors.

A method for automatically presenting digital content to a user of a computer computes task-related metadata from data which may include i) a most recent event record, ii) a most recent specification received from the user of a task being performed by the user, iii) an automatic prediction of the current task being executed by the user, iii) past event records and associated task identifiers stored in a database and / or iv) content in resources associated with a given task. The task-related metadata is communicated to a digital content service provider. Digital content relevant to the user based on the task-related metadata is then selected, sent to the computer, and presented to the user. Rules and filters control the metadata going out and the content coming in, allowing automatic adaptation based on the current task, characteristics of the content, and other factors.

Systems, methods, and user interfaces are used for controlling a robot. An environment map and a robot designator are presented to a user. The user may place, move, and modify task designators on the environment map. The task designators indicate a position in the environment map and indicate a task for the robot to achieve. A control intermediary links task designators with robot instructions issued to the robot. The control intermediary analyzes a relative position between the task designators and the robot. The control intermediary uses the analysis to determine a task-oriented autonomy level for the robot and communicates target achievement information to the robot. The target achievement information may include instructions for directly guiding the robot if the task-oriented autonomy level indicates low robot initiative and may include instructions for directing the robot to determine a robot plan for achieving the task if the task-oriented autonomy level indicates high robot initiative.

Systems and methods for project management are provided for a project containing tasks and user designations for administrators and non-administrators. Each task has a task completion status and a task identity. Each respective user designation includes a user account associated with a user. The administrator can change the task completion status of all tasks whereas the non-administrator can only change the task completion status of some of the tasks in the project. A first electronic message is received from the administrator. The message assigns a task to a non-administrator. Subsequently, a second electronic message with a completion status of the task is received from the non-administrator, whereupon the completion status of the task in an electronically stored record of the project is updated to reflect the new completion status of the task without human intervention.

A computer program product for managing email communications includes code to incorporate email tags into an email. The email tags uniquely identify the corresponding email and an email family of which the email is a part. A user interface uses the email tags to permit a user to view the email family in a graphical manner illustrating the relationship among emails in the email family. Each email tags may further identify all direct email ancestors, if any, of its corresponding email communication. The user interface facilitates additional management tasks oriented to a family of emails including trimming branches in the email family to reduce redundancy and modifying last generation emails to include all attachments of the email's ancestors. The email tags might include an index portion appended to a base portion where the base portion uniquely identifies the original email and the index portion identifies an email's director ancestry path.

The invention discloses a film comment-oriented naming entity recognition method, and belongs to the technical field of entity recognition. The method comprises the following steps of: defining a naming entity type of a name in a film comment; constructing a training data set TrainSet; segmenting a non-marked data set by taking characters as units so as to construct a character matrix, and constructing a mapping dictionary of characters and word vectors by utilizing a skip-gram model in word2vec; generating a naming feature dictionary corresponding to each character; combining word vectors andnaming features of the characters to generate a feature vector matrix for training a name recognition model; constructing a mixed model by utilizing Bi-LSTM and CRF so as to train the name recognition model; and carrying out name recognition on the feature vector matrix through the trained name recognition model, so as to realized film comment name recognition task-oriented name definition, carryout name labeling on character levels during name recognition, obtain name features and combine word vectors obtained via word2vec training with the naming features.

The present invention relates in general to graphical user interfaces (GUI) in computer display systems, and in particular, to the instrumentation of graphical control for task navigation in a GUI system. The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and processing system for performing a step-by-step procedure using a task oriented interface integrated into a single, intuitive, graphical control / display that further controls the user's ability to navigate through the steps and prevents the user from attempting to revise irreversible steps. The interface display graphically displays how many steps remain to be completed, and how many steps have already been completed. Additionally, it enables the user to deviate from the predefined order of steps and skip optional steps while compelling the user to complete the required steps. The display also differentially displays the completed steps to indicate which steps can be revised and which cannot.

A method of, and system for, using a high-level, task-oriented Application Programming Interface (API) to access a legacy system, the method including the steps of: (a) providing the legacy system, including emulation software for accessing the legacy system; (b) operating a low level API over the emulation software; (c) operating the high-level, task-oriented application programming interface over the low level API, and (d) implementing database access protocol emulation over the high-level API.

The invention discloses a semantic meaning-based specific task text keyword extraction method, and belongs to the field of natural language processing. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, extracting a subject word of a certain specific task in a related text, and converting the subject word into a semantic vector by utilizing a semantic representation technology; secondly, carrying out word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging and screening on a text of a to-be-extracted keyword by utilizing a word segmentation tool; thirdly, converting the screened words into semantic vectors and calculating a similarity between each screened word and the subject word of the specific task; and finally, constructing a word network chart by taking the words as nodes, and calculating the importance degree of each word on the basis of the word similarity so as to extract important words in the word network chart. The method disclosed by the invention comprehensively considers the semantic features and structural features of the words in the texts, and is suitable for the extraction of specific-task oriented text keywords, so as to realize a function of obtaining important information from the texts and provide important technical support for the field of text mining, natural language processing, knowledge engineering and the like.

Methods for using task-related information to enhance digital searching are provided. A task-oriented user activity system maintains task-related information about resources accessed by a user and current user task. This task-related information is used to include task-related metadata in search engine index, e.g., by storing the metadata in the index or by storing it in resources which are subsequently indexed. Task-related information can also be used to enhance search results by filtering and ranking results to increase relevance with respect to a user's current task and / or to enhance search queries to include task-related search criteria.

The invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle cluster visual navigation task coordination method and system based on semantic text transfer. The method comprises the following steps of: determining the number of unmanned aerial vehicles in an unmanned aerial vehicle cluster and building task-oriented visual navigation; determining task division of each unmanned aerial vehicle; acquiring visual navigation information by each unmanned aerial vehicle by virtue of vehicle-mounted vision sensing equipment and / or acquiring video image information required by the visual navigation from other unmanned aerial vehicles or equipment by adopting a communication manner, and carrying out fusion processing in vehicle-mounted image understanding equipment to generate a semantic text file; compressing and sending the semantic text file to the unmanned aerial vehicle of a receiving party by the unmanned aerial vehicle of a sender; and fusing information obtained by the unmanned aerial vehicle of the receiving party according to received compressed information to generate a required visual navigation flying control instruction. The unmanned aerial vehicle cluster visual navigation task coordination method and system disclosed by the invention can be used for effectively reducing information transmission quantity in unmanned aerial vehicle cluster coordination visual navigation and are good in real-time performance, thus being an effective technology for realizing unmanned aerial vehicle cluster visual navigation task coordination.

A method, system, and computer instructions for the queuing of location-based task-oriented content. A content service provider receives content for a location-dependent task to be delivered to a particular client computing device. The content service provider determines if the content is above a threshold associated with the location-dependent task. Responsive to a determination that the content is above the threshold, rerouting the content to a storage repository associated with another location-dependent task, wherein a user may address the content at a later time.

The present system provides a task manager that extracts information relating to tasks from a task oriented email. The system then integrates the task within the system by connecting the email programs, the task management programs, and a database, to automatically send emails and provide links to documents all related to completion of the task. Methods are provided that allow users of the system to efficiently interface with the system to complete and archive tasks.

Methods for using task-related information to enhance digital searching are provided. A task-oriented user activity system maintains task-related information about resources accessed by a user and current user task. This task-related information is used to enhance search queries to include task-related search criteria that improve relevance of search results. The task-related information can also be used to include task-related metadata in search engine index, e.g., by storing the metadata in the index or by storing it in resources which are subsequently indexed. Task-related information can also be used to enhance search results by filtering and ranking results to increase relevance with respect to a user's current task.

A computing system that incorporates an auxiliary processor to the main system processor. The auxiliary system utilizes a separate application runtime for processes and is capable of operating even when the primary system is in an off state. Methods for load-balancing are provided based on computing needs respective to power consumption requirements. Processes that are not computationally intensive are processed by a low-power, auxiliary processor. In addition, peripheral components accessible to the overall computing system are shared.

Methods for using task-related information to enhance digital searching are provided. A task-oriented user activity system maintains task-related information about resources accessed by a user and current user task. This task-related information is used to enhance search results by filtering and ranking results to increase relevance with respect to a user's current task. The task-related information can also be used to include task-related metadata in search engine index, e.g., by storing the metadata in the index or by storing it in resources which are subsequently indexed. Task-related information can also be used to enhance search results by enhancing search queries to include task-related search criteria.

A dynamic, flexible and intuitive task-oriented graphical user interface (GUI) is implemented on network accessible hand-held mobile devices. A mobile hand-held device is characterized by limited screen size and fewer input keys compared to a keyboard. In a home network environment, such mobile hand-held devices act as remote control devices for home devices. Typical examples of such remote control device are universal remote control and cell phone. In one implementation the GUI provides techniques for displaying large amounts of data using a small screen. The GUI also presents a technique for making the user aware of current abstract available options and smoothly guiding his current intention into a task selection that the remote control can understand and execute on.

The invention discloses a task-oriented spatial information network resource management method, for mainly solving the problem of a lower utilization rate of spatial information network resources due to time variation characteristics in the prior art. The implementation process is as follows: 1, initializing a network node, dividing a network planning period into multiple equilong time slots, and calculating a visible condition between each nodes in each time slot; 2, constructing a resource time variation diagram to represent network resources, and constructing a resource time variation conflict diagram to represent the conflict of the resources in the network; 3, solving an independent set of the resource time variation conflict diagram; 4, solving a non-conflict resource time variation diagram according to the independent set; and 5, solving multiple commodity stream problems in the non-conflict resource time variation diagram to obtain an optimal resource distribution scheme. By adopting the task-oriented spatial information network resource management method disclosed by the invention, the conflict of resource shortage and business development is relieved, the complexity of resource management in a spatial information network is reduced, and a technical support is provided for system research and resource management of the spatial information network, so that the task-oriented spatial information network resource management method can be applied to the distribution of spatial information network resources.

The invention discloses an optical three-dimensional imaging method based on biological tissue specificity. The problem of the prior art that the accurate and quick optical three-dimensional imaging cannot be performed on a complex organism having an irregular anatomical structure and various scattering characteristic tissues is solved. According to the method, a target function is established onthe basis of an optical transmission mixed mathematical model for the biological tissue specificity and a completely thinning regularizing method, and a mixed optimizing method based on a task orientation is used for solving, thereby realizing the optical three-dimensional imaging for an internal targeted object. The method comprises the following steps: collecting a data; preprocessing the data;acquiring the anatomical structure; acquiring a surface optical data; reestablishing optical characteristic parameters; establishing an optical transmission model; establishing a system equation; establishing the target function; solving the target function; and displaying a result. The optical three-dimensional imaging method has the advantage that the accurate, quick and high-resolution reconstruction for a light source in the complex organism can be realized, and the method can be applied to the field of internal optical three-dimensional imaging.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for managing at least one client computer in a client-server computing system. The start-up boot process of the client computer is interrupted before the standard operating system user initialization program is executed. One or more resources to be permitted for use on the client computer, such as a communicative connection with the server, are enabled. An alternative user interface program which may be either a remote desktop access program or a task-oriented computer program is executed. Upon termination of the alternative user interface program, the alternative user interface program is automatically reexecuted to prevent self-help access to resources by the user. The alternative user interface program serves as the sole user interface to the client computer, and limits access by the user to resources to only one or more permitted resources.

A system provides task-oriented enhancement of a software application that allows for remote, Web-based, technical support. The system observes user-interactive elements in the software application. Based on the observed user-interactive elements, the system generates at least one task indication and at least one respective instruction indication associated with the software application. Generation of the indications may be done dynamically as the software application loads or executes. The system may be activated locally or remotely to provide technical support, or “coaching”, to a user. The system may also be used to generate documentation for the software application.

The present invention relates to a method for transformer substation telecontrol device and regulation and control master station remote signaling automatic closed-loop joint debugging. A transformer substation monitoring background real-time database is taken as correct standard basis, EXCEL model telecontrol file published by the regulation and control master station is taken as joint debugging task guidance, and newly developed automatic closed-loop joint debugging software based on the IEC61850 protocol is employed to lead in the transformer substation monitoring background SCD configuration file to simulate telecontrol data and send the telecontrol data to the transformer substation background and the telecontrol device step by step. The transformer substation monitoring background receives the simulated telecontrol data and returns the telecontrol data of the monitoring background real-time database back to the automatic closed-loop joint debugging software based on the IEC61850 protocol; the regulation and control master station receives the telecontrol message of the telecontrol device and performs analysis, and returns real-time database telecontrol data of the regulation and control master station back to the automatic closed-loop joint debugging software based on the IEC61850 protocol to automatically compare the telecontrol data of the regulation and control master station and the transformer substation monitoring background. The correction rate of the method can reach 100%, the time saving rate of the method can reach more than 95%, the work efficiency is greatly improved, and the reliable and safe operation of the power grid is ensured.

The invention discloses disaster reduction task-oriented time-space data obtaining and service combination scheme generation methods. For the task description-oriented time-space data obtaining method, firstly a disaster reduction task description template is designed, and a disaster reduction task description statement is input and preprocessed; secondly entities in a user description statement are extracted, and attribute requirements of input data are inferred in combination with rules in a knowledge base; and finally screening conditions in a standard query statement are established. For the disaster reduction task-oriented service combination scheme generation method, firstly a data correlation description is added in service metadata, and function ontologies of services are introduced; secondly, based on data correlation among the services, a service dependency graph is obtained by using a dependency graph establishment algorithm; and finally, the function of each combination path in the dependency graph is verified and screened by using an effective path search algorithm, and serves as a service combination scheme to be recommended to a user. The difficulty in obtaining thedata and establishing the disaster reduction task combination scheme through the task description by the user is overcome.